Re: Fun with the A7/7R
Michiel, are you still working with Sony IDC? If so, how well are you able to maximize DR (i.e. shadow and highlight control)?
No, my problems with Adobe are solved and I am back at ACR. IDC is so slow, especially if you post (to) many pics. Shadow and highlight control are good, altough it has a little complicated interface. It is a very basic program.
There are so many other things it can't do like: a quick horizontal/vertical, leveling and rotate correction.
What I missed most is the brush and graduation filter.
I have been using a DxO Optics Pro 9 trial for some time as well. It supports the latest Sony's
Very well made but is also missing a lot. If you have a lot of modern AF lenses, which I don't, it is really great whith all those lens profiles for correction.
It is a little ackward to use but I guess it is also a question to get used to it.
I am also waiting for RAW therapee to support the A7r because I want to look into that as well. There will be a time, probably sooner then later that Adobe forces you to take a subscription to the cloud. I want to be prepared because I don't want to do that.
There is a cheap Lightroom/PS subscription but I don't want LR. I just trew it off my computer.
I also used Gimp for a while to do the framing. Has a good layer system build in and can do it as well as PS, I mean dropshadow etc.. But I don't know how to make an action off it in Gymp, so it is slower. Also then I would miss my plug- ins, so I am sort of hooked on PS still.
But for free Gimp is quiet a program.